PUBLISHED: 9 Jun 2024 at 07: 34
A 27-year-old Chinese girl who was allegedly kidnapped for a 25-million-baht payment was discovered at a shopping plaza in Bang Na area on Saturday night.
According to media reports, officers found Lu Xinlei at HomePro Bangna. She was taken to the Phra Khanong police station where she was met by her mother and older girl, who had just arrived from China following suspicions of violence.
According to reports, the Chinese lady worked for a Chinese property company and received a call-scam call from a claiming to be Chinese authorities, telling her she had broken an anti-money-laundering law.
She was told to move 17 million yen to them for examination, left for either Thailand or Singapore, and not to talk to her parents in Shanghai.
The Chinese girl arrived in Thailand last week on Wednesday. She was required to frequently switch out of her SIM cards and relocate to various resorts.
A man called her parents in China on Friday last week to tell them that their daughter had been abducted and that they must pay a ransom of 5 million yuan ( approximately 25 million baht ) for her safe release. Later on Friday, a Chinese-language speaker forwarded the kids ‘ objection to the police.
Authorities believed that Ms. Lu and her relatives had been duped by a call-scam group through a chat program, without that there had actually been any actual abduction.